查询词典 had rather...than

At the French authorities' request, Kent police had ordered the Biggin Hill air traffic controller to radio the Hawker's pilot and order him directly to the terminal rather than to the client's hangar.

肯特警方根据法国当局的要求，命令比金山机场的航班调度员用无线电通知"猎鹰者"号的驾驶员，命令他直接把飞机开到机场的航空集散站，而不是此客户的私人停机库。

In addition, babies that had been delivered naturally, rather than by caesarean, were at the biggest risk of a breech delivery.

此外，与剖腹产婴儿相比，正常分娩的婴儿出现臀位分娩的几率最高。

Robert had directed the cabman to drop him at the corner of Chancery-lane, and he ascended the brilliantly-lighted staircase leading to the dining saloon of The London, and seated himself at one of the snug tables with a confused sense of emptiness and weariness, rather than any agreeable sensation of healthy hunger.

罗伯特指示马车夫在大法官法庭巷的一个角落上让他下了车，他登上通往伦敦餐厅的灯光辉煌的楼梯，在一张舒适的桌子旁坐下，心中是一团空虚和疲倦的混乱感觉，却不是由于健康的食欲而引起的惬意之感。

I had to be a carbon copy of a great saint rather than the original God intended me to be.

我宁愿去模仿一个伟大的圣人而不愿去作原版的自己。

He had been crossing to the store cupboard to get more rat spleen when he felt, rather than saw, the heat from the potions explosion; he was aware of a chartreuse mist lingering in the air, and heard a muttered spell from Professor Snape.

正当他走向储藏柜去取一些大鼠脾脏时，与其说是看到了，不如说是感觉到了魔药爆炸的高温；他意识到空中弥漫着一股黄绿色的雾气，听到斯内普教授低语了一声。

Commodus wished to rename the city of Rome the colonia Commodiana, which illustrates two characteristics of these new sorts of colonies. In the first place, the status of colony was considered honorific. In the third century, after all the inhabitants of the empire had become citizens, the colonial status was much sought after in the east, for reasons that must have involved prestige rather than practical benefit. Second, the change in status entailed no introduction of Roman settlers. The population remained unchanged.

康茂德皇帝曾想将罗马本城改名为科洛尼阿·康茂迪亚纳(Colonia Commodiana，即为康茂德所建的殖民城)，这表明种改称的新型殖民城有两个特点：其一，殖民城的地位被视作是荣耀的，到3世纪所有帝国居民都被授予罗马公民权之后，在东方城市间仍努力寻求这种殖民城的地位，其原因更多是为了这一名号的威望，而不是实际的利益；其二，这种城镇地位上的变化不必引入任何罗马拓殖者，该地人口仍维持原样。

Most spectacular, he found that the planet Venus had phases—powerful evidence that the Copernican view of our solar system, in which the sun, rather than the earth, is at the center, was correct.

最引人注目的是，伽利略发现金星有位相—这是证明哥白尼学派认为太阳系的中心是太阳而不是地球的观点正确的强有力的证据。

Her sense of perpetual otherness was extended by encounters with childhood friends who had escaped Cracow to grow up in Israel, rather than Canada or the United States, and were preoccupied with soldiers, not scholars.

她的感觉是永恒的差异性与延长童年谁逃出克拉科夫成长在以色列，而不是加拿大或美国，并与战士们全神贯注，而不是学者的朋友接触。

Rio's Australian managing director Steven Creese told the inquiry that SOEs had become increasingly important and the government should view them "as an opportunity rather than a threat".

力拓澳大利亚公司的常务董事Steven Creese面对质询说，国有企业变得越来越重要，政府应该把他们"看作是更多的机遇，而不是威胁。"

When the 150,000-ton Queen Mary II docked here last spring, the city took a public-relations hit as bewildered passengers, rather than docking in Victoria Harbor, had to disembark at a gritty container port -- the only facility that could accommodate the massive Cunard Lines ship.

去年春天，当冠达邮轮旗下的大型游轮"玛丽皇后二号"到访香港时，维多利亚港实在无法容纳这艘15万吨的巨轮，最后"皇后"只好屈尊停泊在了集装箱码头，港府的公关形像也因此受到了打击。

Methods: Five patients with parkinsonism or dystonia were assigned to general anesthesia using an modified endotracheal tube.

本实验依照人体实验之相关规定进行，五位患有帕金森氏症或肌张力异常的病人接受神经立体定位手术。

If you can benefit from this book, it is our honour.

如果您能从本书获益，这将是我们的荣幸。